Progress Toward Liberalization of the Postal and Delivery Sector
ISBN: 9780387297439 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The European Commission and its member states, along with many others, are wrestling with the problem of how to implement the scheduled liberalization of the postal sector while maintaining the universal service obligation. This book addresses some of these concerns. It is comprised of original essays chosen from among several dozen presented at the 13th Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics, which was held in Antwerp, Belgium, in June, 2005. The European Commission and its member states, along with many others, are wrestling with the problem of how to implement the scheduled liberalizat... |
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Aggregation, Efficiency, and Measurement
ISBN: 9780387369488 / Angielski / Twarda / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Economists have long studied the efficiency of firms, industries, and entire economies. This volume brings together leading scholars to make connections between efficiency and a number of diverse areas of current interest to economists, including an examination of the efficiency of tax systems across generations that overlap, and the efficiency of firm mergers that highlights the tradeoff between the synergy of the merger and the problem of managerial oversight in the now larger firm. An empirical look at productivity growth of states uses a tripartite decomposition of labor productivity... Economists have long studied the efficiency of firms, industries, and entire economies. This volume brings together leading scholars to make connec... |
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390,87 zł |
Measuring Business Cycles in Economic Time Series
ISBN: 9780387951126 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. lengths, that could not be captured with univariate linear filters. Exam- ples of research in both directions can be found in Sims (1977), Lahiri and Moore (1991), Stock and Watson (1993), and Hamilton (1994) and (1989). Although the first approach is known to present serious limitations, the new and more sophisticated methods developed in the second approach (most notably, multivariate and nonlinear extensions) are at an early stage, and have proved still unreliable, displaying poor behavior when moving away from the sample period . Despite the fact that business cycle estimation is basic to...
lengths, that could not be captured with univariate linear filters. Exam- ples of research in both directions can be found in Sims (1977), Lahiri and ...
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Microeconomic Analysis
ISBN: 9780393957358 / Angielski / Twarda / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Microeconomic Analysis has been a fixture of graduate programs in economics for fifteen years, providing unique authority, clarity, and breadth of coverage.
Microeconomic Analysis has been a fixture of graduate programs in economics for fifteen years, providing unique authority, clarity, and breadth of cov...
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299,29 zł |
Exercises and Applications for Microeconomic Analysis (Revised)
ISBN: 9780393957372 / Angielski / Miękka / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The third edition continues to supply the building blocks of microeconomic analysis: a thorough treatment of optimization and equilibrium methods, coupled with numerous examples of their application.The third edition expands on the earlier editions in two ways. First, the coverage has been rewritten and rearranged. Second, chapters have been added on game theory, oligopoly, asset markets, and information economics. The new chapters fully update the text, highlighting significant developments of the last decade at a level that is accessible for first-year graduate students.
The third edition continues to supply the building blocks of microeconomic analysis: a thorough treatment of optimization and equilibrium methods, cou...
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226,47 zł |
Prices and Knowledge: A Market-Process Perspective
ISBN: 9780415068659 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The growth of information economics has lead to a substantial re-consideration of the role of prices. Instead of the conventional neo-classical view of prices as straightforward indicators of scarcity, information economics emphasises that prices can be sources from which agents infer information and means by which they communicate. Prices and Knowledge analyzes different theoretical approaches to the role of prices in situations of imperfect information. It shows that whilst the informational efficiency approach of Grossman and Stiglitz and the bounded rationality theory of Nelson and Simon...
The growth of information economics has lead to a substantial re-consideration of the role of prices. Instead of the conventional neo-classical view o...
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The Global Impact of the Great Depression 1929-1939
ISBN: 9780415118187 / Angielski / Twarda / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study broadens the conventional focus of the Great Depression to include its impact on the countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America. It covers the economic background and causes, from the international gold standard to agricultural over-production in the US. Other areas discussed include: the impact on the peasantry in developing countries; the political consequences, such as fascism in Europe; and the aftermath and the re-alignment of America, Europe and its colonies. Key areas, such as Keynesian theory, are explained in accessible terms.
This study broadens the conventional focus of the Great Depression to include its impact on the countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America. It covers...
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The Global Impact of the Great Depression 1929-1939
ISBN: 9780415118194 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study broadens the conventional focus of the Great Depression to include its impact on the countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America. It covers the economic background and causes, from the international gold standard to agricultural over-production in the US. Other areas discussed include: the impact on the peasantry in developing countries; the political consequences, such as fascism in Europe; and the aftermath and the re-alignment of America, Europe and its colonies. Key areas, such as Keynesian theory, are explained in accessible terms.
This study broadens the conventional focus of the Great Depression to include its impact on the countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America. It covers...
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198,19 zł |
Foundations of Business Economics: Markets and Prices
ISBN: 9780415120746 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Foundatioins of Business Economics explains microeconomic analysis in terms of real business situations. The underlying theme of the book is the way in which markets link together interdependent activities and how they confront and solve problems of information. The book covers a wide range of issues, including
*The economic way of thinking *The Business environment *Product markets *Market failure *Factor markets *General equilibrium Theory is developed carefully but with a light touch and mathematics kept to a minimum, making the book easily... Foundatioins of Business Economics explains microeconomic analysis in terms of real business situations. The underlying theme of the book is ...
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146,02 zł |
Firms, Markets and Economic Change: A Dynamic Theory of Business Institutions
ISBN: 9780415121194 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Traditonal western forms of corporate organization have been called into question by the success of Japanese keiretsu. Firms, Markets and Economic Change draws on industrial economics, business strategy, and economic history to develop an evolutionary model to show when innovation is best undertaken. The authors argue that innovation is a complex process that defies neat categorization and government policy should be to facilitate change rather than to direct it.
Traditonal western forms of corporate organization have been called into question by the success of Japanese keiretsu. Firms, Markets and...
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912,96 zł |
Firms, Markets and Economic Change: A Dynamic Theory of Business Institutions
ISBN: 9780415123853 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Traditonal western forms of corporate organization have been called into question by the success of Japanese keiretsu. Firms, Markets and Economic Change draws on industrial economics, business strategy, and economic history to develop an evolutionary model to show when innovation is best undertaken. The authors argue that innovation is a complex process that defies neat categorization and government policy should be to facilitate change rather than to direct it.
Traditonal western forms of corporate organization have been called into question by the success of Japanese keiretsu. Firms, Markets and...
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307,74 zł |
Towards a Competence Theory of the Firm
ISBN: 9780415144728 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text explores the theory of the firm produced through an exchange between management theory and economics. In the process, economics is seen to provide a foundational element for strategy research whilst developing a more realistic theory of the firm with a greater emphasis on its internal features. The success of competence theories of the firm also reflects their ability to explain significant trends in the business world, notably the declining importance of conglomerates and critical features in the success of Asian and Japanese business.
This text explores the theory of the firm produced through an exchange between management theory and economics. In the process, economics is seen to p...
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547,77 zł |
Transformational Growth and the Business Cycle
ISBN: 9780415148559 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the concept of Transformational Growth from a number of different historical and geographical perspectives. Transformational Growth sees the economy as an evolving system in which the market selects and finances innovations, changing the character of costs and affecting the pattern of market adjustment. This creates the possibility that markets will work differently in particular historical periods.
This book explores market adjustments in two distinct historical periods, 1870-1914 and 1945-the present. The book focuses on six countries: USA, United Kingdom, Canada,... This book examines the concept of Transformational Growth from a number of different historical and geographical perspectives. Transformational Growth...
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912,96 zł |
An Entrepreneurial Theory of the Firm
ISBN: 9780415229777 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Traditional theory of the firm has concentrated on such topics as technology, evolution and transaction costs whilst failing to account for one of the most fundamental aspects of the market process - entrepreneurial activity. Using an approach consistent with the modern Austrian School, Frederic Sautet has developed the open-ended theories initiated by Hayek and Mises to bring a new perspective to conventional economic theory.
Traditional theory of the firm has concentrated on such topics as technology, evolution and transaction costs whilst failing to account for one of the...
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912,96 zł |
Microeconomic Policy
ISBN: 9780415236003 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work gives the student a wider view of microeconomics than is often the case, linking principles to settings and showing how theory compliments policy and vice-versa. Cohen sees a satisfactory balance between private interest, public concern and social norms as the challenge to present society; where microeconomics policy-making and design create harmony between the market economy, state intervention and institutional governance. By linking theory to policies and application, this work should enable students to acquire proficiency and recognize balance in policy analysis and preparation....
This work gives the student a wider view of microeconomics than is often the case, linking principles to settings and showing how theory compliments p...
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Microeconomic Policy
ISBN: 9780415236010 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sustaining a balance betweenprivate interests, public oncern and institutional governance is a challenge to society and microeconomic policy making can be seen as being at the intersection of the market economy, state intervention and social institutions. This text guides the reader through policy areas, illustrating how they can be approached and appropriate mehtods for handling them, linking principles to settings, policy and applications.
Sustaining a balance betweenprivate interests, public oncern and institutional governance is a challenge to society and microeconomic policy making ca...
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286,88 zł |
Managerial Economics : A Game Theoretic Approach
ISBN: 9780415272896 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text can be used as a way of introducing business and management students to economic concepts, as well as providing economics students with a clear grasp of how to use the skills they will need in the world of business. Topics covered include: product differentiation; price discrimination; hiring and training workers; labour-management relations; and international trade.
This text can be used as a way of introducing business and management students to economic concepts, as well as providing economics students with a cl...
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323,40 zł |
Global Governance and Financial Crises
ISBN: 9780415305297 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The editors of this book have pulled together a collection of chapters that review the spate of financial crises that have occurred in recent years starting with Mexico in 1994 and moving on to more recent crises in Turkey and Argentina. With impressive contributors such as Douglas Gale, Gabriel Palma and Andrew Gamble, the book is a timely and authoritative study. Global Governance and Financial Crises provides a new understanding of this important area with a combination of economic history and political economy as well as the most recent developments in analytical economic theory....
The editors of this book have pulled together a collection of chapters that review the spate of financial crises that have occurred in recent years st...
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782,54 zł |
Economics Lab : An Intensive Course in Experimental Economics
ISBN: 9780415324014 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This user-friendly textbook gives an introduction to the world of experimental economics. The book begins with an exploration of the history of experimental economics before moving on to describing how to set up an economics emperiment and surveying selected applications and methods.
This user-friendly textbook gives an introduction to the world of experimental economics. The book begins with an exploration of the history of experi...
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939,05 zł |
Economics Lab: An Intensive Course in Experimental Economics
ISBN: 9780415324021 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Laboratory experiments with human subjects now provide crucial data in most fields of economics and there has been a tremendous upsurge in interest in this relatively new field of economics. This textbook introduces the student to the world of experimental economics. Contributors including Reinhard Selten and Axel Leijonhufvud that sketch the history of experimental economics before moving on to describe how to set up an economics experiment and to survey selected applications and the latest methods. This user-friendly book demonstrates how students can use the lessons to conduct... Laboratory experiments with human subjects now provide crucial data in most fields of economics and there has been a tremendous upsurge in interest... |
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286,88 zł |